The Morenci City Council plans to focus on the city’s interim police chief at its meeting Monday, Feb. 10.

Ryan Hillard, named interim chief at a special meeting in November, is expected to be designated interim chief “indefinitely,” city administrator Michael Sessions said Friday.

“We have no plans to search for a permanent chief,” Sessions said.

The council also plans to switch interim chief Ryan Hillard from an hourly wage to a salary of $48,000 a year. It is also scheduled to vote on a recommendation to send Hillard to the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police’s Police Executive and New Chiefs School in April and May.

Hillard became a part-time officer at Morenci in 2008 and a full-time officer in 2012. He has also worked for the Madison Township and Clinton police departments.

For the past two months, the city council has discussed the police chief job made vacant when Larry Weeks left Dec. 1 for the same position at Eaton Rapids.

Hillard said Friday that becoming chief is one of the goals every police officer has.

“I am looking forward to the new position and the new responsibility,” he said.